Vol. 86 Issue 11 • Single copies free • Feb. 11, 2012 • 210-486-1773 • theranger.org
This week Library exhibit celebrates black women In honor of Black History Month, the library presents an exhibit of the found artwork of a local artist called, “Shifting Views: The Art of Bernice A. Appelin-Williams.” The exhibit on the second and fourth floors of Moody Learning Center celebrates the theme “Black Women in American History and Culture.” Appelin-Williams makes art out of nothing, Librarian Eileen Oliver said. As a collector of eccentric materials, she is known for her unique creations made from scratch. The artist will be available during a reception 2 p.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday on the fourth floor of Moody. The exhibit is sponsored by the Black History Month Committee. For more information, call Judi Clark at 210-4860589. Rebecca Salinas
Empowerment center helps manage stress The empowerment center will sponsor a weekly stress management support group from 2 p.m.3 p.m. Thursdays in the center at Howard and Evergreen streets. The support group started because students are stressed about time management, test anxiety, and juggling school and work, Counselor Carolina Trevino said. Discussions will include understanding the causes of stress; relaxation techniques; family, school and work demands in conflict; health and wellness; time management; and test anxiety. Students will benefit from meetings with an emotional connection of sharing experiences, support, and understanding how to work through common student stress issues, she said. “It will teach coping skills,” Trevino said. For more information call the empowerment center at 210486-0455. Janeka Porter
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Engineering sophomore Hyrum Hilario and paralegal sophomore Mario Gutierrez train during boxing practice Jan. 24 in the craft room of Loftin. Boxing coach Hector Ramos raises the thermostat to increase the stamina and endurance of the athletes, who are
training for the Golden Gloves event Feb. 21-23 in the Woodlawn Gymnasium at 1103 Cincinnati. An Olympic-style boxing event will be 11 a.m. March 30 in the mall on campus. Ingrid Wilgen
Counseling moves to early college The counseling center has moved temporarily to the early college program building between the chemistry and geology building and Nail Technical Center during renovation of the first floor of Moody Learning Center. By FAITH David Rodriguez, director DUARTE of counseling and advising services, said renovation should be fduarte3@student. alamo.edu completed in July. He said once finished, the transfer center, counseling and advising services, career services and the veteran affairs office will move back to the first floor of Moody. Disability support services, currently in Chance Academic Center, will relocate to Moody after construction, he said. Student development classes meet on the second floor of the early college program building and in portable buildings near the intersection of Locust Street and Main Avenue, north of the chemistry and geology annex. The student development department will
move permanently to the early college program building after the renovation is complete, Rodriguez said. Rodriguez said the move began in October, but the center could not shut down its services because of spring registration, the center’s busiest time. The counseling center continued services Jan. 12 after closing the week of Jan. 9 to finish moving, but online capabilities ensure services are available. “Just about anything that you can get done face-to-face coming in here can be done online,” he said. In addition to academic advising for first-time students and students who are undecided on a major, personal counseling is available for students in crisis situations, Rodriguez said. Students can meet with counselors for three private sessions before receiving an off-campus referral. Counselors assess students’ situations and try
to resolve them within three private sessions per semester; otherwise, they refer students to offcampus counselors. Licensed counselors have private offices and other counselors advise students in group offices but can meet in private if the student needs to disclose sensitive information, Rodriguez said. “Licensed counselors are held to a higher standard,” he said. “There are certain standards of privacy that we need to maintain.” For example, he said an adviser could stop the session if it started getting personal. Rodriguez said he also could vacate his office if an adviser needs a room to discuss a student’s issue. “We can make those accommodations,” he said. Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday; 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday; and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. every first Saturday. There are no office hours on other weekends. For more information, call 210-486-0334.
District migrates student email accounts Over winter break, student email accounts were migrated from servers owned by the Alamo Colleges district to Microsoft Outlook, a product that includes an email By JOSHUA application, calFECHTER endar and other Microsoft features. jfechter @student. alamo.edu Dr. Thomas Cleary, vice chancellor of planning, performance and information systems, said the district wanted to give students greater capabilities to communicate with one another and more storage space. According to the district website,
students’ inboxes will have 10 GB of storage, 25 MB of total email size, and 18 MB that can be used for email attachments. Additionally, students will have access to 25 GB of online storage via Windows Live SkyDrive, a free online storage service, where they can share store, access and share files. Students also will have access to online versions of Microsoft Office applications as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. The district website has instructions on how to sync student email accounts on mobile devices.
Students also may set student email accounts to forward emails to a personal email account. Cleary said about 240,000 accounts were migrated Dec. 19-25. He said out of the about 60,000 students attending the Alamo Colleges, about 45,000 have accessed the new account. Instead of being housed in the district, accounts now will be hosted on servers owned by Microsoft in a manner similar to the way Google and other online email services host emails and documents. Cleary said the district is not pay-
ing for the service but paid consultants $30,000 to assist with migrating the accounts. Student accounts no longer will use the alamo.edu address and will use student.alamo.edu. Accounts of faculty, staff and administrators will continue to use alamo.edu. Students have until March 19 to retrieve email from the alamo.edu account. At that time, students will no longer have access to that account. For more information, visit www. a l a mo.e du / di st r i c t / i t / st u de nt email-questions/.